Colombia's Mario Uribe Asks for Asylum After Arrest Warrant (Cousin of Bush's Colombian ally) [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Bloomberg

Colombia's Mario Uribe Asks for Asylum After Arrest Warrant

By Andrea Jaramillo

April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Former Colombian Senator Mario Uribe asked Costa Rica for political asylum after a prosecutor ordered his arrest for alleged ties to paramilitary groups, El Tiempo newspaper said, citing his attorney, Jose del Carmen Ortega.

Uribe, a cousin of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, went to the Costa Rican embassy in Bogota today on the grounds that he doesn't have adequate procedural guarantees in Colombia, the daily newspaper said, citing a source it didn't name. He has repeatedly denied links to paramilitary death squads.

Mario Uribe's arrest would bring to 33 the number of lawmakers detained in a growing scandal over alleged ties to paramilitary groups, Bogota-based El Tiempo said.



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